On 1/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List members, > I'm the administrator of a big website that hosts an important forum > (VBulletin to be precise). At peak time we get around 7000-9000 > concurrent users (counting the php sessions, members visiting the forum) > the switch (Foundry) counts 2700 concurrent connections. > > during those peak times, the apache server (RHEL 4 AS, Apache 1.3, php) > gets a load average of 80~170. the mysql server runs smoothly at 0.9 ~ > 3. > > Browsing the Internet / following some optimizations HOWTOs didn't help. > Can anyone kindly support me on that issue?
You need to work on the diagnosis before you work on the cure. Load average means almost nothing for a web server. What exactly is concerning you? Are the responses slow? How is memory usage? Are your disks maxed out? In general, tuning apache itself won't get you very far (unless you are serving mostly static files). You need to make sure you have adequate resources for your site and perhaps tune php and your database. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
